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Michelle Obama Goes Skiing in Colorado
White House Dossier ^ | February 19, 2011 | Keith Koeffler

Posted on 02/19/2011 12:32:00 PM PST by Kaslin

First Lady Michelle Obama is on “a private family trip” in Colorado where she is skiing with daughters Sasha and Malia, according to an administration official.

“The First Lady and several close friends are chaperoning their children on a ski trip,” the official told the press pool reporter who is following President Obama today.

Reports coming out of Colorado say she arrived Friday night and is staying at the Sebastian Hotel on Vail Mountain. Rooms start at $605 per night for a room with two queen beds and head north of $2,000 for multi-bedroom suites.

Here’s a description from the hotel’s website:

For the best in Colorado vacations, stay at The Sebastian - Vail and enjoy Vail’s newest boutiqueslopeside hotel. In the heart of the Vail Village, The Sebastian is welcoming and pulsing with life. There’s Bloom Spa, Frost Bar, Market for nibbles, our visionary Block 16 restaurant. There’s a mountain-view pool, hot tubs and a roaring fire pit. Base Camp offers ski-in ski-out access from Vail’s Vista Bahn lift, just at the foot of Vail Mountain. Our ski valets will help you into warm ski boots and out onto the mountain.

Mrs. Obama has decided to jet out to Vail – instead of visiting slopes closer to Washington DC in Virginia or Pennsylvania – despite already incurring criticism for taking opulent excursions, particularly a trip last summer to Spain. There, she stayed at the country’s swankest hotel and, like this weekend, was traveling without her husband.

Mrs. Obama also raised eyebrows in December when she left earlier than President Obama for their annual vacation in Hawaii, incurring added expenses for taxpayers that likely ran well in excess of $100,000.

The trip to Vail, which almost certainly requires use of a large Air Force jet, would likely be much more expensive for taxpayers than a shorter journey by chopper or motorcade to a resort near Washington. Mrs. Obama will likely pay for a portion of her trip, but many costs of a first lady’s travel are borne by taxpayers.

President Obama today went to serve as the “parent coach” for for Sasha’s basketball team, even though Sasha was not there.

Meanwhile, Vice President Biden and his wife are spending the weekend in Key Largo.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: lowclassscum; michelleobama; moochelle; sacrificemo; skiing; trailertrash; vail
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To: Kaslin

It’s nice to be queen.


21 posted on 02/19/2011 12:52:44 PM PST by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: All


22 posted on 02/19/2011 12:53:22 PM PST by Liz (A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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To: Kaslin

Like Bumbles, Moochie bounces too.


23 posted on 02/19/2011 12:57:49 PM PST by mickey finn (GO)
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To: Liz

What a total Grifter Queen. Take it while you can get it, you lard-assed loser. mochelle...you and your EPIC FAIL husband already are seen as clueless and feckless. History will damn you both. The nobama family are prime examples of equal-opportunity LOSERS.


24 posted on 02/19/2011 1:02:03 PM PST by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: tflabo

And especially Vail


25 posted on 02/19/2011 1:02:15 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: clee1

That is what it looks like


26 posted on 02/19/2011 1:03:29 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: nolongerademocrat
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27 posted on 02/19/2011 1:04:42 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: hal ogen

There have been estimates upwards of $80B stolen from the US treasury.

The Ovomitons will leave DC to live like the Sultan of Brunei.


28 posted on 02/19/2011 1:05:19 PM PST by Liz (A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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To: nolongerademocrat; FrankR

Oh, I am sure someone is going to make one.


29 posted on 02/19/2011 1:05:40 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: RegulatorCountry

LOL! Thanks.


30 posted on 02/19/2011 1:07:10 PM PST by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Kaslin
Pat yourselves on the back people. We are such good employers our public servants can vacation (repeatedly throughout the year) at places that run 600 to 2K a night. Dang we must pay good. Wish maybe I'd kept a little more of that for myself though. My next vacation will be staying at a $17 (yes, seventeen) dollar a night campground. I'll be making my own fire, cooking my own food. But you know, I'll take it, and the moral integrity it implies, over the obama's lavish, selfish lifestyle.
31 posted on 02/19/2011 1:09:30 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Kaslin

Scary for Ski Patrol.


32 posted on 02/19/2011 1:12:35 PM PST by Jane Long (2 Chron 7:14)
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To: Kaslin

Still selfish.


33 posted on 02/19/2011 1:14:20 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty
so nice to see our President and family living higher than any other leader of a free nation while the nation is in a depression.

At least Jimmy Carter said in DC or camp David.

34 posted on 02/19/2011 1:24:00 PM PST by scooby321
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To: Kaslin
From http://www.9;news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=182321

Air Force Two

A motorcade of about a dozen vehicles, including 15 state and local law enforcement officers, traveled from the Eagle County Regional Airport to Vail on Friday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Roads were temporarily blocked to make way for the motorcade in Eagle.

35 posted on 02/19/2011 1:26:28 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: Kaslin; kristinn

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20110218/NEWS/110219787/1078&ParentProfile=1062

A motorcade of about a dozen vehicles, including 15 state and local law enforcement officers, traveled from the Eagle County Regional Airport to Vail on Friday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Roads were temporarily blocked to make way for the motorcade in Eagle.

36 posted on 02/19/2011 1:30:41 PM PST by maggief
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To: Kaslin
“a private family trip”

My ass. I can't wait till we dump this greedy skank and her shiney-suited pimp back on the streets of chicago.

37 posted on 02/19/2011 1:30:41 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Smokin' Joe
She'll generously spring for the hot chocolate for the kids.
38 posted on 02/19/2011 1:32:04 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Smokin' Joe
Mrs. Obama will likely pay for a portion of her trip...

She bought Malia a soda from the machine.

39 posted on 02/19/2011 1:35:10 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: LibFreeOrDie
dang, she barely gets her luggage unpacked and off they go again!!!

they just had a three week vacation in Hawaii six weeks ago...and we can hardly afford to fill up our heating fuel and gas our vehicles up!!! must be nice to live off the taxpayer...

things will be changing come 2012.....

40 posted on 02/19/2011 1:40:17 PM PST by haircutter
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